Friday, March 26, 2010

Dead Tone (2007)

aka 7eventy 5ive

Ten years before the movie takes place, a group of friends are having a sleep over while all their parents party in the next room. An odd occurrence to be sure, but it makes it so much more convenient for the killer that the kids prank called. After all, he might have to make an effort to make the kids orphans if the adults weren't all in one room.

Back to the present, some of the kids are in college and making the same type of prank calls - keep the random person you've dialed on the phone for seventy five seconds and make them believe whatever outrageous story you've concocted. A pretty lame game to begin with, but even worse when it was the catalyst for the death of your parents.

The group ends up at a huge party at a mansion in the middle of nowhere where they play the game again. Oh imagine that, they've called another killer. Will he show up at the door in the middle of nowhere? Of course he will due to the incredibly stupid party goers who give the address out to the psycho who's been repeatedly calling for the past five hours.

As seems to be the trend in recent horror movies, the main characters are obnoxious jerks that you won't care about and their death will bring relief from their stupid mutterings. Also what is up with movies paring an attractive girl with the dumpy awkward guy? It's showing up in more and more movies.

Oh almost forgot, Rutger Hauer shows up once in awhile as a detective whose been working on the cold case of tracking down the killer from ten years ago.

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